Bulldogs V Cats - Round 4 (Gather Round), 6/4/24 Adelaide Oval 8:10pm AEST

[Sedat]

Re: Bulldogs V Cats - Round 4 (Gather Round), 6/4/24 Adelaide Oval 8:10pm AEST

I’ll say it, Dale needs to be dropped.

I'd rather swap Dale and Williams - move Williams to half back where he does his best work and move Dale further up the ground and get him to utilise his pace and good foot skills.

[whythelongface]

Re: Bulldogs V Cats - Round 4 (Gather Round), 6/4/24 Adelaide Oval 8:10pm AEST

They just showed the Stengle "mark" again, and it was clear one hand wasn't on the ball when the ball was well behind the line.

Terrible bullshit decision.

Unfortunately they seem to get the run of the green. Bullshit decision that cost us the game

[dog town]

Re: Bulldogs V Cats - Round 4 (Gather Round), 6/4/24 Adelaide Oval 8:10pm AEST

Naughty and JUH were poor let's be honest, while our half back flankers couldn't tackle to save themselves and just didn't do any damage with ball in hand. It was a solid effort but still kind of feels like ground hog day under Bevo atm.

Love to know what's going on with Daniel and Macrae, AA talent looking like VFL level right now.

Reasonable comparisons to Crouch, Mitchell, Wines, Fyfe and quite a few others recently. Macrae could be in our best 8 players but the way we are setting up if he isn?t in our best 3 mids plus Sanders (development) he will not be what he was.

The game might swing back another way but right now it?s not just a turnover game it?s turnover/turnover.

[angelopetraglia]

Re: Bulldogs V Cats - Round 4 (Gather Round), 6/4/24 Adelaide Oval 8:10pm AEST

Max Laughton

Geelong now 18-3 against the Bulldogs since the 2009 finals, and the third of those losses was last year with the Dogs playing for finals and the Cats totally cue in the rack. One of the great modern footy hoodoos.

[jeemak]

Re: Bulldogs V Cats - Round 4 (Gather Round), 6/4/24 Adelaide Oval 8:10pm AEST

hasn’t been good for a long time.

He was excellent in 2022 and should have been All Australian. Agree that he wasn't great last year and that he's been patchy after an interrupted start to the year.

[whythelongface]

Re: Bulldogs V Cats - Round 4 (Gather Round), 6/4/24 Adelaide Oval 8:10pm AEST

I'd rather swap Dale and Williams - move Williams to half back where he does his best work and move Dale further up the ground and get him to utilise his pace and good foot skills.

Not a bad idea. When Williams gets into the game he is good. Just doesn’t do it enough.best position is behind the ball

[The Bulldogs Bite]

Re: Bulldogs V Cats - Round 4 (Gather Round), 6/4/24 Adelaide Oval 8:10pm AEST

Max Laughton

Geelong now 18-3 against the Bulldogs since the 2009 finals, and the third of those losses was last year with the Dogs playing for finals and the Cats totally cue in the rack. One of the great modern footy hoodoos.

I'll forego a future flag just to beat them at full strength once.

[comrade]

Re: Bulldogs V Cats - Round 4 (Gather Round), 6/4/24 Adelaide Oval 8:10pm AEST

Max Laughton

Geelong now 18-3 against the Bulldogs since the 2009 finals, and the third of those losses was last year with the Dogs playing for finals and the Cats totally cue in the rack. One of the great modern footy hoodoos.

That is insanity given we?ve made 2 GFs & finals a bunch of times. Bunnies.

[Mantis]

Re: Bulldogs V Cats - Round 4 (Gather Round), 6/4/24 Adelaide Oval 8:10pm AEST

I thought Macrae was pretty good when he came on.

If pretty good is having 1 kick then I?d hate to see what poor looks like?

The way the game was being played, and how gassed Geelong were it would?ve been more beneficial to have Garcia as the sub.

[jeemak]

Re: Bulldogs V Cats - Round 4 (Gather Round), 6/4/24 Adelaide Oval 8:10pm AEST

We've also had to play them more at their home ground than many others.

I'd like to get a crack at them at the MCG again at some point.

[angelopetraglia]

Re: Bulldogs V Cats - Round 4 (Gather Round), 6/4/24 Adelaide Oval 8:10pm AEST

Treloar just absolutely gutted in the post match TV interview.

You can knock him for a lot of things, but you can?t question his commitment, preparation and how much it means to him. Passion in spades.

[jeemak]

Re: Bulldogs V Cats - Round 4 (Gather Round), 6/4/24 Adelaide Oval 8:10pm AEST

If pretty good is having 1 kick then I?d hate to see what poor looks like?

The way the game was being played, and how gassed Geelong were it would?ve been more beneficial to have Garcia as the sub.

Bevo stuffed up going against his own logic about Jack. He needs to play the full game (or be subbed out), and can't be the sub.

[ledge]

Re: Bulldogs V Cats - Round 4 (Gather Round), 6/4/24 Adelaide Oval 8:10pm AEST

I think even though we lost Bont will get three votes.
Thought our backline held up pretty well when we didn’t just let them run through the middle.
Our problem is not our forward line it’s our kicking into it . Proven today , JUH was great once we lowered our eyes.
Darcy will be a huge headache for clubs this year.
Daniel had a shocker.
Macrae livened us up when he came on.

[Hotdog60]

Re: Bulldogs V Cats - Round 4 (Gather Round), 6/4/24 Adelaide Oval 8:10pm AEST

Treloar may have got a fair bit of it but felt he did little to help our cause.
Daniel has become a liability.
Maybe it's time to swap Dale and VDM around and see how it goes at least Dale knows were the goals are from 15 metres out and we would break even with VDM in the backline.

[Grantysghost]

Re: Bulldogs V Cats - Round 4 (Gather Round), 6/4/24 Adelaide Oval 8:10pm AEST

They just showed the Stengle "mark" again, and it was clear one hand wasn't on the ball when the ball was well behind the line.

Terrible bullshit decision.

That was never a mark. Why review when you still guess? Should always take the lesser.